Innes speaks about education in Shelby County

The Bluegrass Institute’s staff education analyst, Richard Innes, provided an update on Kentucky’s education performance to a meeting of 25 people hosted by Shelby County Republicans on October 25, 2012.

Updated with the very latest information available, Innes’ presentation makes it clear why the first test results from Kentucky’s new K-PREP assessments are expected to be, and should be, quite low.

A few of the topics Innes discussed include:

• Why state to state education data comparisons must be broken down by race, and how that looks both on the NAEP and the ACT college entrance test,

• Very low performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics and science assessments by Kentucky’s white students,

• Low performance by Kentucky’s students compared to other states which now test all graduates with the ACT college entrance test,

• A realistic picture of Kentucky's troubling high school graduation rates, which included this new information showing US graduation rates actually were higher back over 32 years ago and

US AFGR from 1969-70 to 2008-09

• Kentucky’s chronic and disturbing youth unemployment situation.

Innes is available to talk to any group statewide that would like a better understanding of how Kentucky's education system is actually performing.

Innes’ presentation slides can be viewed by clicking here.

He is available to speak to any group that would like to learn more about Kentucky’s real education performance.